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Floodgates open after Kelly Oxford invites followers to share stories of sexual assault

National Sexual Assault Hotline saw 33% spike in calls over weekend

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(CNN)It began Friday night, shortly after the world learned of the time Donald Trump bragged about forcing himself on women and grabbing them by the "pussy."

He would later apologize and brush it off as "locker room talk." Many, including author and social media star Kelly Oxford, saw it for what it was: sexual assault.

"Women: tweet me your first assaults," she said to her 746,000 Twitter followers. "I'll go first: Old man on city bus grabs my 'pussy' and smiles at me, I'm 12."

The responses came flooding in, one after another.

"A drunk family friend in his 40s pinned me against the door at my granny's & pressed himself on me. I was 15. Never told anyone."

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"Soccer coach discretely groped my boobs while demonstrating how not to block someone in gym class. I was 13."

As one person noted, "This is going to be an intense weekend."

The Republican candidate's comments, which surfaced via audio leaked to the Washington Post, set off widespread denunciations from his party, the White House and beyond.

Elsewhere, on social media and in private conversations, Trump's comments were a reminder of a culture that denigrates women and treats them as mere objects of sexual desire, referred to as rape culture.

Oxford noted as much within minutes of her tweet, as women shared their stories using the hashtag #NotOkay.

It's one thing to hear Trump's "misogynistic rhetoric" when he speaks in public in the form of "dog whistles and concern-trolling," Duarte said. To hear him in an unguarded moment, talking to "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush on the way to a taping, showed him to be "even more vile" in private.

"To hear a presidential candidate bragging about sexually assaulting women, with such an explicit statement, well, my pussy got really angry," Duarte said in an email. "The disgusting braggadocio, the pride he clearly takes in violating women. He just revels in his power over female bodies. I want to use mine to destroy him."

Actress America Ferrera used the hashtag to share a tongue-in-cheek map from Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight on what the electoral college would look like if women refuse to vote Trump. On the night of the second presidential debate, it became a rallying cry on Twitter for anti-Trump sentiment.